spam detected but not tagged

[Julian Field]

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On 2 Mar 2006, at 10:14, Dave Strydom wrote:

> I have an idea (it may be stupid though)
>
> Correct me if I am wrong but, If a message gets a hit from the
> spamassassin.cache.db then it is definately spam?

No, it caches negative results (briefly) too.

> If the above is right, can you do not put a additional check in the
> code, that check if the message got a spam hit from the
> spamassassin.cache.db, and if it did mark it as spam (regard of the
> output it gets from the hit)
>
> Because as you see from this:
>
> Feb 28 09:05:42 Cerberus MailScanner[22928]: SpamAssassin cache hit
> for message 1FDyvT-0006SE-Nn
> Feb 28 09:05:42 Cerberus MailScanner[22928]: Message 1FDyvT-0006SE-Nn
> from 220.104.253.235 (cleopatr at akeva.com) to xxxxxxxxxx.com is not
> spam,
>
> It got a hit from the database, (this is where it gets the score of 19
> or whatever) but then mailscanner says it's not spam. Could you not
> code it so it does this: "
>
> if spamassassin cache hit then
> is definately spam.
>
> or am I way off the ball here?
>
> Dave
>
>
> ==================
> On 3/2/06, Dave Strydom <strydom.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> yeah this is related to the same problem as mine (just checked the
>> headers of those messages)
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On 3/2/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> I think this is another Perl bug, I've seen this exact behaviour
>>> several times before. The problem is that I cannot reproduce it and
>>> so I'm not sure where to put the workaround.
>>>
>>> On 2 Mar 2006, at 09:06, Erik van der Leun wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> X-MailScanner-Spamcheck: geen spam, X-MailScanner-SpamScore: 17
>>>>
>>>> This is really all it writes about spam in headers...
>>>> It detects, but doesn't take action...
>>>>
>>>> I //solved// the matter by disabling SA cache by the way...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, shuttlebox wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2/28/06, Erik van der Leun <evanderleun at hal9000.nl> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Another issue I fail to understand...
>>>>>
>>>>> Since I've recently upgraded MailScanner to 4.50.15.1 and added
>>>>> pyzor, razor2 checks, it sometimes occurs that spam is detected
>>>>> well, but not tagged as spam.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the mailheaders, I even see the spamscore, but the mail is
>>>>> not treated as spam... just sent through the regular way.
>>>>>
>>>>> No spam subject tag is added either.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Post some headers and maybe some log snippets, otherwise it's hard
>>>> to help.
>>>>
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